devongarver

OK, I am not sure about the rest of you, but I for one am getting tired of trying to figure out which oil filter to use on my vehicles. We already know the manufacturers and Auto Companies will all bend the truth to get more sales, so we cannot rely on their results for testing. SO here is my idea. WE do our own testing! The purpose of this thread is to have all of you share what features of an oil filter are important. Together we can create a set of parameters to use for testing. That's the easy part. The hard part is actually testing them! So, all of you mechanics out there, this is your time to chime in and help us all out!

I have read dozens of articles on testing oil filters, and they all seemed crude and a truly unreliable test procedure. Something that would be good here is to define what needs tested. For example, we know flow rate is important, particle size for filtering is important, as is percentage filtered, but what else? The amount of time the filter takes to lose its ability to filter? Is there a practical way for us to test any of these things? Maybe I will build a test rig to cycle contaminated oil through brand new filters and then have the oil tested? I'm no expert here guys so help me out!


Or maybe I am way off base all together and we should just rely on the manufacturer's saying the filters are good enough?

What do YOU think?

ShadyNinja

???????

THERE IS A "ISO" FILTER TEST.

Methods of test for full-flow lubricating oil filters for internal combustion engines -- Part 12: Filtration efficiency using particle counting, and contaminant retention capacity

http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_det...csnumber=10474

devongarver

Well, I didn't even think about that, but I can't view any of the tests unless I fork over 112 Swiss francs, which is like 96$ american...and there is like 8-10 different test pages...thats alot of money.

ShadyNinja

ok but I was stating there was a industry standard test for oil filters.
I know some companies list it on their website.

mustangted

WWW.bobistheoilguy.com

devongarver

Oh ok ya I gotcha, I didnt realize that manufacturers listed any sort of flow ratings that were measure on an ISO standard or anything. I thought they used their own testing.

devongarver

I've read some info on this website before...

Do you have a link for an oil filter test? I did not see one.

ShadyNinja

I know SVTP is about to start some sort of test...

DreamerGT

http://filtrationcomparisons.weebly.com/index.html

not sure if you saw this in the other thread or not.

mustangted

CHECK IN THE OIL FILTER FORM